Adams Rants

Never before have I felt like crying after playing poker, but today saw me took beat after beat, routinely being one-outed, running set into set and missing every combo draw imaginable! It really was tough mentally as I played over 5000 hands today, playing between 6 and 8 tables at all times. There’s no doubt about it that the high number of tables affect my ability to read the table dynamic properly and make correct decisions but I have definitely improved in this regard and I actually felt on top of my game today taking in as much information as I could in what little idle time I had between hands I was involved in!

My day got off to a good start until I checked K8 in the BB after the button flat called. The flop came 886 and I checked and called his small bet. The turn brought a flush draw and I check/raised him. He called. The river was the K of hearts completing the flush but giving me a full house. I value bet it, hoping to be raised which I am, I push over the top and he calls with KK to have rivered the nuts thanks to a one outer!

After that I just couldn’t get paid off with my big hands no matter how I tried to play them. I had to laugh when I was in the BB with pocket aces only to have it folded into me, not once but twice in a matter of minutes and that was on a maniac table where chips were flying into pots every other hand! The “highlight” of the day had to be when I lost 5 buyins within a minute! I was dealt AA on three tables simultaneously and pocket pairs on another three! I hit sets with all my pocket pairs and the chips went flying in only to run into over sets on two tables and into a flopped straight on the other! Sick! As for my aces, well I got all three allin preflop only to run into a flush and straight respectively. I did manage to bust a shortstack for $4 though!

From there on in it was a struggle to keep playing but I grinded it out and eventually managed to manoeuvre my way back up to being roundabout breakeven if I include my rakeback! Either way, 5000 hands to breakeven at a level I should be crushing is just soul destroying!